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But how can that higher soul have sense-perception?
It is the perception of what falls under perception There,
sensation in the mode of that realm: it is the source of the
soul's perception of the sense-realm in its correspondence with
the Intellectual. Man as sense-percipient becomes aware of that
correspondence and accommodates the sense-realm to the lowest
extremity of its counterpart There, proceeding from the fire
Intellectual to the fire here which becomes perceptible by its
analogy with that of the higher sphere. If material things
existed There, the soul would perceive them; Man in the
Intellectual, Man as Intellectual soul, would be aware of the
terrestrial. This is how the secondary Man, copy of Man in the
Intellectual, contains the Reason-Principles in copy; and Man in
the Intellectual-Principle contained the Man that existed before
any man. The diviner shines out upon the secondary and the
secondary upon the tertiary; and even the latest possesses them
all- not in the sense of actually living by them all but as
standing in under-parallel to them. Some of us act by this
lowest; in another rank there is a double activity, a trace of
the higher being included; in yet another there is a blending of
the third grade with the others: each is that Man by which he
acts while each too contains all the grades, though in some sense
not so. On the separation of the third life and third Man from
the body, then if the second also departs- of course not losing
hold on the Above- the two, as we are told, will occupy the same
place. No doubt it seems strange that a soul which has been the
Reason-Principle of a man should come to occupy the body of an
animal: but the soul has always been all, and will at different
times be this and that.
Pure, not yet fallen to evil, the soul chooses man and is man,
for this is the higher, and it produces the higher. It produces
also the still loftier beings, the Celestials [Daimons], who are
of one Form with the soul that makes Man: higher still stands
that Man more entirely of the Celestial rank, almost a god,
reproducing God, a Celestial closely bound to God as a man is to
Man. For that Being into which man develops is not to be called a
god; there remains the difference which distinguishes souls, all
of the same race though they be. This is taking "Celestial"
["Daimon"] in the sense of Plato.
When a soul which in the human state has been thus attached
chooses animal nature and descends to that, it is giving forth
the Reason-Principle- necessarily in it- of that particular
animal: this lower it contained and the activity has been to the
lower.
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